Really though...I don't have another blog or outlet and these witch trials are really bothering me...But uh, I don't advise anyone to read this poorly written expression of my thoughts. They needed to be written down immediately.
Can you imagine not being able to read? or God forbid...TYPE!? What would I do without stumbleupon? I seriously just found 50+ articles for my thesis that I wouldn't have known about if I wasn't both literate and technologically savvy. (Oh, people are going to compare literacy to computer knowndege in a short, short time!)
Anyway, it wasn't even 400 years ago that 90% of us college females would be ridiculed and denied opportunity for even taking this HST 322 class. How quickly we forget our history...Perhaps the women of the seventies made (us) traditional women forget (or deny) the true extraordinary bounds we have triumphed in the past century because their views were too extreme. Nonetheless, just to be literate is an extraordinary gift I take for granted daily, simply because, "I've suffered through nearly sixteen years of schooling."
Um, I'm twenty-one. Single. Into Philosophy and History. My parents are modest. I have three older bothers, who are currently unmarried, bu all have serious girlfriends that I can't wait to call sisters. Oh, did I mention? We all work for my dad, too. I like to challenge people; play devil's advocate. I don't think my beliefs in deities and afterlife can be classified as normal. I really want to be a professional scholar. I damn my hometown all the time and dream of far off places that I want to live...And hey, I lived in England for a few months. I like gin and ale, gettofmyback! Oh, and I'm a vegetarian that thinks she wouldn't survive without supplements.
I certainly, without a doubt in my mind, would have been tried as a witch if I was living in the sixteenth century...
Not a very comforting thought, really. I guess we could acknowledge how far society has come and whatnot. But that really isn't the case, is it? Because if I still feel the way I do fifteen or twenty years from now I'll be an eclectic old lady with 100's of cats (hopefully sooner, rather than later ;-)) that neighbors avoid. Sure, I won't be a witch; but I'll still be a drain on society because I'm not producing babies or married.
hmm.
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Thanks so much for your comments. Actually, I wasn't completely done with that blog. You just read the first paragraph. I will be finishing it soon so check back later. The pictures that I have posted were fairly simple to do. When you go to add a new blog there is a tool bar with an option to add a picture. If you would like I could show you in class. Again, check back on my blog soon.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm glad you expressed your feelings so passionately towards the witch trials and the state of women in general. I too think about how insanely difficult it is for women to live in a world dominated by men, then and even now. I can't imagine having my life dictated by society. I too think that I would have been tried and found guilty of being a witch. I kinda think that's why I wanted to be a witch during our classes witch trial.
ReplyDeleteWitchcraft question: About forty. My character is forty, so any older than that would be relatively/really old.
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